cool teaser! didn't get it at first but then i saw grammar and i was like "wait if you put the first letter in the back you get the same thing" and it worked with all the other ones. really awesome teaser! keep em' coming! 8)

Darn! Never saw it coming! Had lots of ideas about symetry, etc. but none of them right. Excellent work! Thanks!
PS: They still show the clip on TV where Dan Quail "corrects" the kid at the school spelling bee because she forgot the "e" in potato. :oops: :lol: (0)

These are the most frustrating. Because I sit there trying to figure out the issue KNOWING it is something like "take the first letter and put at the end and when you read backwards, it is the same word!" :evil:
Okay, I'm feeling better now! :D

Very nice. Only thing I would have liked to see though was that the hint really should have been part of the instructions so people like me wouldn't look at it and immediately dismiss it as just being multiple pairs of double letters and too obvious for anything.
It doesn't help of course when you get them via the daily email where the hints aren't available till you click the link for the answer, but that's a site annoyance and has nothing to do with your cool teaser :D

Man... good teaser, though this idea is not original.
Read Smee's comment on the teaser link below, made in March earlier this year, 4 months earlier than this teaser was submitted.
Copy and paste this into your address bar.
http://www.braingle.com/brainteasers/
teaser.php?id=22537
(It didn't let me use words longer than 50 characters, so I had to break up that end bit.)

Devilbunny is correct. When I went to school it was potatoe and tomatoe, but somewhere along the line it was changed and argued about for some time, but originally it was with an E. nice teaser all the same. :)

I've never seen it with an "e" either, but then maybe it was changed before I got to school. OR perhaps babe and Quayle had the same spelling teacher.
I think the original comment about the "e" was in reference to that (if you look at the date of it).

I didn't bother with the hint so I just got words with at least two pairs of repeated letters.
As an aside, I can't believe how often the Dan Quayle "spellinge lessone" keeps popping up in these things.